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Funny how he just lost it since D'Antoni came aboard. In another system, he'll probably beast again.

Not this season.
He is too ****ed up phisically at the moment.

But this year he is not going to play with spain.

So expect him to do great wherever he is NEXT season.

Hes been consistently declining year after year for the passed 3 seasons. As much as I love the Guy and as professional as he is, its over. He could become a workable 3rd or 2nd option at best. But those all star level years have quickly gone and they're not returning.

Can anyone, anyone, give a good reason why Gasol should be on this team? Do we actually have an advantage on the inside with Gasol? Are we dominating teams on the inside with Gasol? The team was -20 with Gasol!!!!!

The guy is absolute garbage. He has been since he checked out during that Dallas playoff series.

Why is he still on this team?

We shouldn't talk about +/-, because on the season Gasol's +/- is pretty good. The Clipper game was one game. There's better evidence out there of Gasol's ineffectiveness.

It's hard to have an advantage on the inside with a guy when you tell the guy not to play inside! So we are not dominating teams inside with Gasol, but then, Gasol is not on the inside, is he? And D'Antoni has made it pretty clear that this is by design. Asinine? I think so. But he's the coach.

By the way, 17 ppg and 10 rpg is not garbage. (His numbers last season)

Bad series is not the same as bad season. He can still play. Magic Johnson had a bad series or two. I can only imagine the trade threads if PSD had been around then.

People would have been after Worthys Arse since the Lakers vs Celtics Lost finals and would have gone even harder after him after the rockets fiasco and would have rooted for the propossed Aguirre + roy tarpley trade.
Worth mentioning that aguirre fell of a cliff soon after and tarpley was a drugaddict that got himself banned out of the league.
Providing media/fans/internet pressure woudl ahve allowed him to survive in the team they would have gone absolutely ballistic with his injured play on the defeat vs pistons and bashed him constantly for the rest of his lakers days.

Nto to mention all the " we should have drafted dominique wilkins" threads.

I responded to "Hes been consistently declining year after year for the passed 3 seasons."

Bad series is not the same as bad season. He can still play. Magic Johnson had a bad series or two. I can only imagine the trade threads if PSD had been around then.

Even if, for the sake of argument, Magic "had a bad series or two"... Magic was 3x the player Gasol is and was the leader of our team. Only clueless bandwagoners would have wanted him traded. Much like people now, who want to amnesty Kobe.

Even if, for the sake of argument, Magic "had a bad series or two"... Magic was 3x the player Gasol is and was the leader of our team. Only clueless bandwagoners would have wanted him traded. Much like people now, who want to amnesty Kobe.

Except Magic didnt hurt the team in a game/season/series a single time in his whole career, like west.